Finally Getting Liberated

A day or two before they were firing shots, we were at (inaudible) north that was in Brenna, that was where we ended up. The guards come along and they said, “They’re coming, stay in your barracks!” and they disappeared. We weren’t sure what it was. And then the next morning the Red Cross was right there, the Red Cross was right with the army and as I always said they gave us a towel and soap and a toothbrush and I said, you know I’d never used a toothbrush in my life, I’d rather have something to eat but anyway. And then they took us to Brussels from there and there was Americans, DC-3’s they had I guess and they flew in formation and it was spring then, it was April, April 28th and they would fly over these fields and, you know, if you have flown in an airplane, you’d drop and whatnot and we thought they were trying to kill us, they were flying so close together we thought they would hit one another. And we were in Brussels for about a week I guess because it was rough over the ocean and they flew us to England in the Lancaster bombers.